RiP Barbara Park
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
American children’s book author Barbara Park has died, aged 66. Park, who had a long battle with ovarian cancer, was the author of more than 50 books for young readers, and...
‘Fish-Hair Woman’ wins Most Underrated Book Award 2013
Monday, 18 November 2013
Merlinda Bobis has won the 2013 Most Underrated Book Award (MUBA) for her novel Fish-Hair Woman (Spinifex Press). Bobis was announced as the winner at a public event in Melbourne on 15...
RiP Doris Lessing
Monday, 18 November 2013
British author and Nobel prize winner Doris Lessing has died, aged 94. Lessing was the author of more than 50 novels, including The Grass is Singing (1950), The Golden Notebook...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 18 November 2013
Jeff Kinney’s latest book, Hard Luck: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Puffin), has debuted at number one on this week’s bestsellers chart. After a week at number one, Ricky Ponting’s...
‘Burial Rites’ shortlisted for ‘Guardian’ First Book Award
Monday, 18 November 2013
Australian author Hannah Kent has been shortlisted for this year’s Guardian First Book Award in the UK for her novel Burial Rites (Picador). Kent’s novel is one of five titles...
Penguin Random House, authors donate funds for Typhoon Haiyan aid relief
Monday, 18 November 2013
Penguin Random House (PRH) and a group of British authors, called Authors for the Philippines, are donating funds towards the Red Cross aid relief effort in the Philippines for those...
Readings to sponsor ‘Age’ Short Story Award 2013
Friday, 15 November 2013
Melbourne-based bookseller Readings will sponsor the 2013 Age Short Story Award, reports the Age. The winner of this year’s award, worth $2000, will be announced in mid-December. Entries that come in second and...
Peter Carnavas books to be adapted as school stage plays
Friday, 15 November 2013
Two picture books by Queensland author and illustrator Peter Carnavas will be adapted for the stage in 2014. With the support of Artslink Queensland, Carnavas’ books Sarah’s Heavy Heart and Last Tree...
Tuffield, authors nominated for Women of the Year list on ‘Daily Life’
Friday, 15 November 2013
Affirm Press publisher Aviva Tuffield and a number of Australian authors have been nominated for this year’s Women of the Year list on news website Daily Life. Tuffield, who joined...
Eight-year book-scanning project ends after US judge rules in favour of Google
Friday, 15 November 2013
In the US, Judge Denny Chin has ruled in favour of Google in the long-running litigation over Google’s book-scanning project, ending an eight-year-long legal battle. Chin dismissed the Authors Guild’s...
Latest ‘Wimpy Kid’ book sells over 1 million copies worldwide in first week
Friday, 15 November 2013
The latest instalment in Jeff Kinney’s ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ series has sold over one million copies worldwide in its first week, reports Publishers Weekly. Hard Luck (Puffin), the eighth book...
Catton wins Governor General’s Literary Award in Canada
Thursday, 14 November 2013
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has won the 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction (English language) in Canada for her Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Luminaries (Granta). Catton, who...
Optus launches ebookstore
Thursday, 14 November 2013
Australian telecommunications company Optus is now selling ebooks. The Optus ebookstore, which also sells audiobooks, was launched on 11 November. The store is powered by OverDrive, with ebooks available in EPUB...
Suzy Wilson named Queensland Local Hero of the Year
Thursday, 14 November 2013
Suzy Wilson, owner of Riverbend Books and founder of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, has been named Queensland Local Hero of the Year in the 2014 Australian of the Year Awards....
McBride wins inaugural Goldsmiths Prize
Thursday, 14 November 2013
Irish author Eimear McBride has won the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize for ‘boldly original fiction’ for A Girl is a Half-formed Thing (Text). McBride’s debut novel was selected for the £10,000...
US campus bookseller Follett lays off 570 full-time staff
Thursday, 14 November 2013
In the US, campus bookselling chain Follett Higher Education Group has laid off 570 full-time staff, reports Publishers Weekly. Follett vice-president for retail operations Bob Scholl released a memo to...
Bookworld launches ‘shop local’ marketing campaign with pop-up bookshelves
Thursday, 14 November 2013
Online bookseller Bookworld has unveiled a new marketing campaign in the lead-up to Christmas that encourages shoppers to buy books locally. The campaign officially launched on 17 November with a...
Hachette partners with radio station for Rock’n’Roll Book Club
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Hachette Australia has partnered with NSW radio station 101.7 WSFM to present a monthly Rock’n’Roll Book Club. The book club will focus on one title each month from Hachette’s backlist...
Nicoll-Hatton wins 2013 Lady Cutler Award
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Primary teacher and literacy educator Vivienne Nicoll-Hatton is the winner of this year’s Lady Cutler Award for Distinguished Services to Children’s Literature, presented annually by the New South Wales branch...
Penguin India announces new Bollywood crime imprint
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Penguin India will launch a crime imprint with authors who are connected to Bollywood, reports Business Today. The Blue Salt imprint will launch in December with the titles Ghalib Danger...
Amazon launches Kindle store in Australia
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Amazon has launched a Kindle store in Australia and is now selling locally published ebooks. The Kindle store went live this morning at www.amazon.com.au, a domain name that the retailer...
De Kretser, Koch and Tiffany most popular local nominations for 2014 IMPAC award
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser (A&U), Lost Voices by Christopher Koch (Fourth Estate) and Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany (Picador) were the most popular books nominated by...
Author Tim Ferriss begins publishing audiobooks
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
In the US, self-help author Tim Ferriss has begun publishing audiobooks, reports TechCrunch. Ferriss, who is the author of books such as The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body (both Vermilion), is...
Readings launches new website
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Melbourne-based bookseller Readings has launched its new-look website in the lead-up to Christmas. The new site replaces the previous six-year-old website, and aims to give greater prominence to reviews, blog...
Annabel Smith on (not) making a living from writing
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
In a blog post for the Wheeler Centre, Annabel Smith shares some sobering figures on authors’ earnings. Nowadays, a multitude of blog posts, webinars and online courses tout the idea...
International Library News
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Petition against Lincolnshire library closures attracts 23,000 signatures A petition against the closure of libraries in the county of Lincolnshire, UK, has attracted 23,000 signatures and is ‘almost certainly the...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
‘Our job is to invent on behalf of the customer, make the experience of buying books and enjoying books better, and then let customers decide’—Amazon Kindle vice president Neil Lindsay...
In brief
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Former Booker Prize judge to deliver David Scott Mitchell Lecture 2013 Former Booker Prize judge Rick Gekoski will deliver this year’s David Scott Mitchell Lecture. Gekoski, who was the chair...
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to fund local library leadership program
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will provide $550,000 over five years to fund a regional leadership program for library professionals in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, called...
Turia Pitt named ‘Cosmo’ Woman of the Year
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Australian author Turia Pitt has been named Cosmopolitan magazine’s Woman of the Year, winning the overall prize in the magazine’s annual Fun Fearless Female Awards. Pitt, whose memoir Everything to Live...
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